Organized Crime Presentations

           In our organized crime group presentations I learned that the gangsters the groups researched were all somewhat similar in some characteristics. Most of them began to commit illegal crimes at a very young age. Similar to that, the gangster that I was researching did not even finish college because of the influence to the illegal crimes. Also, most of them were involved in the same category of crimes like bootlegging, bank robbery, kidnapping, and murder. Even most of the most of the gangsters when they were arrested, usually they would escape from jail and start a new life. I also learned that some of them became Public Enemies which people in the 1930's categorized as individuals whose activities were seen as criminal and extremely damaging to society. Some of the gangsters worked together in bank robberies and bootlegging, it was sort of like a network between the gangsters. I also reflect on getting to know more on how people, especially gangsters, tried to live well and happy in the 1930's. I did feel like I have learned a lot about the infamous gangsters in the 1930's. Though, I learned a lot with the gangster that I researched George "Machine Gun" Kelly Barnes, I just wished that there would have been more information about him or his life. I tried so hard to look for more information but I couldnt find anything different than from what I had. To be honest Mr. Meechin, I think that I didnt do a great job putting information in the slides but I just couldnt find anything else that was interesting to put. We all worked hard in the project, and learning from an experience like this and the presentations, shows me what I have to work on the next time I have a group project.